EDIT: Now includes results from use of letterpaper, as suggested in cfr's answer and comment.
I'm trying to create a Beamer handout that will be printed on letter paper. When I follow suggestions in ...

I am preparing slides for a large presentation using the beamer class.
In the beginning I write
\usepackage{pgfpages}
\setbeameroption{show notes}
\setbeameroption{show notes on second screen=left}
...

I'm creating a handout for my beamer presentation using the 4 on 1 layout for pgfpages. I'd like each physical page (which contains four "pages" of the handout) to have a page number bottom centre of ...

I need to divide A4 into two A5 pages (landscape) which works fine with pgfpages but i also need special double page (like titlepage) where left half-page is empty and right contains text.
But this ...

I am running into a weird problem. When I run my code in beamer mode, the logo that I use in each slide (in the right top corner) stays there and does not move. When I try to make handouts, the logo ...

I have been unable to print handouts --- multiple slides per page with border around each. And it just does not work. I tried compiling with xelatex and latex (both almost default installs on Ubuntu ...

I have a beamer handout with a 16-on-1 layout via \pgfpagesuselayout{16 on 1}.
I would like to draw a horizontal rule beneath each row of slides so that the viewer is more easily led to read left to ...

I'm using the pgfpages package to publish my handout. But I think the space between the pages is to big, whereas the space at the outer border is to small. How can I change this?
Currently I use this ...

How can I have active hyperlinks in multipage beamer handouts?
So far, all \url{} and \href{} I have in my document work fine in the resulting PDF if I typeset in presentation mode, but as soon as I ...

I am working with a program at my university that will videorecord my lectures, take my slides, and bundle them together into a movie to be put on the web, iTunesU, etc. They have asked me to produce ...

I've just switched from pdflatex to xelatex for my lectures to take advantage of the unicode-math package so that I can change the colours of all my mathematics. When compiling the "handout" version ...